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8.10.3 From Healthy Heart Study
The local Healthy Heart Study involved collecting information on age, gender, blood
pressure, cholesterol, smoking status and whether or not the person had diabetes or
not. The information was collated into a score (probability) relating to the „10-year risk of
a cardiovascular event‟. The scoring used within the Healthy Heart Study is given in
section 13.4.4 on page 810. The people who participated in the Healthy Heart Study
are not necessarily a representative sample of Hull residents. Information was collected
at different shopping centres in the East Locality of the city and at specific workplaces.
Therefore, only certain people would have been able to participate as they happened to
be at the shopping centre locations at that specific day or worked at the selected
workplaces. Furthermore, it is likely that the people who were interested in participating
in the study and having their details recorded were either people who were particularly
interested in their health or who were concerned about their health. Table 164 gives the
number and percentage of men and women aged 40-49, 50-59 and 60-69 years by their
10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. It was necessary to combine some of the
risk categories due to the small number of people within individual 5% risk bands. The
risk tended to be higher for those people who took part at Northpoint shopping centre
(and this could be associated with deprivation) and lower for those people who
participated at their workplaces (and this could be that people who were not working due
to long-term illness and disability were automatically excluded from this group).
Table 164: CVD 10-year risk in Hull‟s Healthy Heart Study
Gender CVD 10
year risk
Male
Female
Number (%) people with specified CVD risk
by age (years)
40-49 50-59 60-69